Improvement in machines for squeezing puddlers  balls



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL DANKS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, .ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, JOSEPH O. BUTLER, AND LEWIS VORTHINGTON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR SQUEEZING PUDDLERS BALLS.

Specifica-tion forming part ot' Let-ters Patent No. [09,186, dated November 15, 1870.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL DANKS, of Oincinnati, in the county otHamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements in Squeezers for Working Iron, ot' which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the combination of two corrugated rollers of unequal diameters and a cam-compressor; also to a device located beneath the rollers for ejecting the blooms, when suciently operated upon, from between the rollers and discharging them on the door outside thereof.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal sectional elevation of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same, taken through the rollers and camcompressor.

A A are the housing-frames, in which the gudgeons ofthe rollers B and C and cam-compressor D are journaled. The rollers lare corrn gated. The rollerB is largerin diameter than C, and they, as well as the cam-compressor, are rotated in the same direction by means of suitable gearing. The bloom-ejector E is located beneath thel roller O. It consists of the operating-lever a, which is pivoted at a to the base-plate of the machine, and of the basket-arm I), having its lower end pivoted to the inner and short arm of the operating-lever a. The end of the arm b, which receives and ejects over the small roller O the blooms, is provided with a flat basket c. The edge nearest the large roller B is much higher than the opposite edge in order to insure the ejectment of the bloom when the ejector is operated.

The bloom or rough ball from the puddlefurnace is laid upon the rollers, the machine is put in motion, when the cam-compressor D presses the bloom into close contact with the rotating rollers B and O, which, having different diameters and revolving in the same direction, squeeze the bloom between them, and where they are sulcientl y distant from each other force the bloom through upon the Hoor below them. vAt the same time that the bloom l is being worked between the rollers and the cam-compressor the hammer G is upsetting the end by repeated blows thereon.

The devices of the steam-cylinder, steaml chamber, disk-plate, 85o., shown in the drawings led, and designated by letters F I J, Src.,

are not claimed as a part of the invention herein described, a separate application for Letters Patent for them having been made.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the corrugated rollers B C, having unequal diameters, with the cam-compressor D, substantially as shown, and for the purpose specified. y

2. The bloom-ejector E, in combination with the rollers B C, constructed and arranged tooperate substantially as herein shown, and for the purpose specified.

SAMUEL DANKS.

Witnesses:

H. D. PECK, C. L. FISHER. 

